panther icons transparency

Hey guys,

I've been using the panther icons pack with the 1000's of icons, very cool. With Avedesk 1.3 I create the icon desklet add my labels and volume size sublables. My problem is when i try to set the icons image. I use a standard mac drive icon, but end up getting a black background where id expect it to be transparent. Or a black outline around the perimeter of the icon. When i try and adjust the transparency setting sfor th eicon it simply adjust the entire icons transparency rather than the outside/outline.

I've read another post on this site regarding this and its suggestes repait the icon in photoshop which i'm not ot keen on as I dont wanna do this for dozens of icons. Is there something i'm not doing right when i set up my icon in Avedesk 1.3?

Thanks in advance

Munkybifta

#332156

Refresh my memory again--are those icons .ico files or .png files?

AveDesk usually works well with both, but convert to PNG for optimal viewing.

'Course, if you show me what icon you're using, I can send you a copy of it that I know works, from my collection.

Hope this helps,

-NC

#332172

These are the icons im using, Im sure they are .png files, the one I am using is the the one on the left (the big HD icon)

http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/icons/panther_icons.html

#332175

oh sorry my mistake they are all .ico files

#332176

Alright, try converting those .ICO files to .PNG files using IconDrop (you know how to use that, right?), and then using the .PNG files as icons.

-NC

#332293

ok cool I will try that... ONe thing "icondrop" is that when you drag and drop your icons onto the settings dialogue box in Avedesk?

#332395

Hehe, no, there's a handy desklet called IconDrop, which will convert ICO files -->PNG files and vice versa (you can do multiple ones at the same time!).

I had thought it was included with AveDesk--did you check the list of desklets?

If not, I'll send it to you this afternoon (can't seem to find a thread about it either...hmmm...).

-NC

#332411

http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/Icondrop.aveinst

#332416

great thanks guys... I made my own icon for my music library, A vinyl record

here is the link http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/munk.../Music_Icon.png

#332423